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11 THE SHEPHERD • MAY 2024 • SAINT SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF SAN DIEGO Sponsored Announcement BOOKSTORE Christos Anesti! We hope you all had a wonderful Lenten journey lled with Christ’s love and a blessed Pas- cha celebration, the Feast of Feasts. Want to enhance your family’s cele- bration of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church? Take a look at this wonderful book: Heaven Meets Earth: Celebrating Pascha and the Twelve Feasts. This beautifully de- signed book is written for all ages and illustrated with icons and more. The book brings the Twelve Great Feasts alive with hymns, traditions, Old and New Testament scriptures, explanations of the festal icon, and quotes from the Fathers. It is a great companion as we go through the li- turgical calendar year. The Feasts de- termine not only our calendars and schedules but also the way we see and understand the world. We also stock: The Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, an activity book for children. It contains colorful illustrations, pages of icons to color, crossword puzzles, ll-in- the blanks, multiple choice ques- tions, and a page to read explaining the Feast. Mostly suitable for ages 8-12 . Come check out our lovely religious wooden items , hand-crafted by A Carpenter’s Son (Loui Sfakianakis) . Each piece is a wonderful unique addition to your home. There are many items to choose from, for ex- ample, The Lord’s Prayer Crosses (in Greek or English), small crosses with stands, small crosses with bead and rope for your car mirror, Cruci xion Crosses, symandra and more! We would also like to thank Alex & Christine Cremidan for their gen- erous donation to the bookstore in Memory of Basil (Vasilis) Mourafe- tis. May his dear memory be eternal! Happy Spring! Stephanie Mourafetis, Mary Mas- torakos, Pat Tsopanoglou, Collette Pepelis, and Francesca Captain FAMILY AND COSMETIC DENTISTRY CLEANINGS • MAINTENANCE PREVENTION • FAMILY CARE PEDIATRIC CARE • COSMETICS ORTHODONTICS • PRESERVATION DR. BARR INGTON STEPHAN BARRINGTON DDS 6398 DEL CERRO BLVD, SUITE 1 SAN DIEGO, CA 92120 619.286.1181 DRBARRINGTONSD.COM campus for the past many years be- cause we had been focused on build- ing new buildings to help prepare the future generations that will fol- low (and a huge thank you goes out to those many individuals who have given of their time, talent, treasure and efforts toward that endeavor over the past many years). In that ef- fort, we followed the principle of not putting good money into old build- ings, which was a reasonable and re- sponsible one for that time. Howev- er, the time has now come to repair, refurbish, and maintain our existing buildings and grounds. To be sure, a third motivating factor is that our parish centennial/our one-hundred- year celebration is right around the corner (2027), and the time has come to clean up our house in anticipation of that wonderful event as well. In Closing – having said all the above, the most important message is one of filoxenia/hospitality. On Sunday, June 30th our parish antic- ipates upwards of 400/500 delegates and their families visiting our parish for the Synodal Hierarchical Divine Liturgy. We are the host parish and it’s important they feel and experi- ence our hospitality and love which is Biblically founded and Scriptur- ally sound from both the Old and New Testaments (Gen; 18;1f; Rom. 12;13; Titus 1; 8; I Peter 4:9). Hos- pitality is so important to our faith that I have read somewhere from the Fathers of the Church that hospitali- ty is even more important than per- sonal prayer – wow! As we prepare our parish grounds and facilities let us prepare ourselves to welcome the faithful throughout the entire Greek Archdiocese who will be with us on Sunday, June 30th. End note - for more in-depth in- formation about the 47th National Clergy/Laity Congress and Philop- tochos Convention please visit the Greek Archdiocese of America web- site at www.goarch.org. May we rejoice in the Paschal season of our Risen Lord, +A 1 FR. ANDREW